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Month: February 2025

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Eurogroup discusses Bulgaria’s progress towards euro zone accession

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone

By the end of February 2025, Bulgaria will formally request the European Commission and the European Central Bank to prepare

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways offering retro train trips on March 1

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ, in partnership with the Bulgarian Academy of Science’s National Ethnographic Museum, is offering trips on a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport renamed after national hero Vassil Levski

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev issued a decree on February 17 renaming Sofia Airport after national hero Vassil

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues weather warnings over heavy snowfall

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s meteorological bureau has issued the Code Orange warning of hazardous weather for five districts for February 18 because of

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Bulgaria 

Foreign visitor arrivals in Bulgaria for holidays in 2024 up 8.8% y/y

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

There were a total of 5 793 225 arrivals of visitors from abroad in Bulgaria in 2024, an increase of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party congress elects party’s new leader

February 16, 2025February 16, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

In a second-round vote on February 16, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) congress elected acting leader and Deputy Prime Minister

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Business 

Food prices: Bulgarian government says it will propose legislative measures against unfair market practices

February 15, 2025February 16, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Legislative changes aimed at shortening the supply chain, limiting resellers and price aggravation, as well as actions to prevent unfair

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Europe 

Zelenskyy: The time has come – the Armed Forces of Europe must be created

February 15, 2025February 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Munich Security Conference, Russia, Ukraine

Addressing the Munich Security Conference on February 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a call for the creation of Europe’s

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Europe 

European Council President: ‘No lasting peace, without Ukraine and without the EU’

February 15, 2025February 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Munich Security Conference, Russia, Ukraine

Only Ukraine can define when there are conditions for a negotiation, European Council President António Costa told the Munich Security

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